The Wangan · C1 Loop

The Wangan Line — officially the Shuto Expressway Bayshore Route — is the elevated highway that circles Tokyo Bay in a ribbon of tunnels, bridges and neon, and it's the real road that gave the manga and anime Wangan Midnight its entire universe: a black Fairlady Z, the “Devil Z,” running the bayshore after dark against anything that will race it.

It's also, simply, the best stretch of driving within reach of Tokyo at night. Rainbow Bridge, the Odaiba skyline, the container port lights — all of it slides past at expressway speed with almost no other context for where you are, which is exactly the sensation the story is built on.

This is literally the road ARTCARS is based beside, and the spine of our guided Daikoku PA Night Drive. Running it yourself, self-drive, in a Fairlady Z is about as close as street driving gets to living inside the story.